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Manga Artists Get Computer Aide Date: 10/23/2005 |
An interesting new piece of software was shown off last week at the IPAX 2005 (Information Technology Promotion Agency) show at Tokyo Big Site. The POM program developed by Yuka Kobayashi lets the user plug in various styling datapoints of specific famous manga artists and then processes that info with your provided script, rendering entirely fresh scenes on the fly as if they were created by the original mangka stars. For their demonstration, Mitou Youth utilized the settings of Ai Yazawa, CLAMP, Akira Toriyama and "Yoshihiro Togashi. Likewise peculiarities of boys and girls comics were fed into the program. As most of us know, the work schedule of the average creator can be gruelling, with unforgiving deadlines and unrelenting editors. With that in mind this tool is actually being designed to aide mangaka in more quickly rendering their scenes in the same style that they would. POM was developed by Kobayashi as a graduation production of Hokkaido and Hakodate industrial Technical College. Commercialization of the product is currently undecided. |
Source: Anime News Service |